NASA'S EMDRIVE THRUSTER JUST TOOK AN IMPORTANT LEAP FORWARDPosted on Saturday, September 03, 2016 @ 17:01:19 EDT by vlad

Anonymous writes:
From DigitalTrends: The dream of the EmDrive, a futuristic space propulsion engine
capable of getting us to Mars in a matter of weeks, may sound like
science-fiction — but it’s just taken one big leap toward being
science-fact.

That’s because a paper describing how it can achieve thrust has
reportedly passed the peer review process and is all set to be published
by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power...

Also, see article from iflscience.com: Peer-Reviewed Paper On EmDrive To Be Published In December

Update
(2 September): It has been confirmed to IFLScience by the AIAA that a
paper on the EmDrive is being published in December 2016. They said:

“The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Journal of Propulsion and Power has accepted for publication a paper in
the area of electromagnetic propulsion. However, it is AIAA’s policy not
to discuss the details of peer reviewed papers before/until they are
published. We currently expect the paper in question to be published in
December 2016.”

From Popularmechanics.com: Enough argument. It's time to actually test this crazy thing.

The EmDrive [www.popularmechanics.com],
a hypothetical miracle propulsion system for outer space, has been
sparking heated arguments for years. Now, Guido Fetta plans to settle
the argument about reactionless space drives for once and for all by
sending one into space to prove that it really generates thrust without
exhaust.

So it’s official: the NASA Eagleworks test of the EMdrive, an engine
that claims to produce thrust with no reaction to correspond to its
action, has passed peer review and is now published. If there’s truly no
reaction at all, then a slew of laws of physics are violated, and our
fundamental foundations of what we understand about the Universe are
undercut...

It’s one of the most intriguing stories of the year: NASA’s version of the 'impossible' EM Drive appears to produce thrust [www.sciencealert.com], violating Newton’s third law and hence our current understanding of the physics that govern the Universe.

But just because NASA’s space drive test passed peer-review last month, doesn’t mean it actually works, says Brice Cassenti [today.uconn.edu],
an expert in advanced propulsion systems at the University of
Connecticut. In fact, due to the array of errors that could have
affected the experiment, he says the only way we can actually know the
truth is to test the EM Drive in space...